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Feb 25, 2014

Noob question on VS and node

Hi all, I have a F5 here being setup by the previous F5 administrator.

 

Our previous webserver was 10.8.6.19 and it was replace by this F5 10.8.10.12 and 10.8.10.14 are the Application server.

 

I don't quite understand is that why is the VS is set as the web server IP and not the application server ?

 

When I check on the firewall, the public IP is pointing to 10.8.6.19 which makes me more confusing.

 

Ltm::Node: 10.8.10.12 (10.8.10.12)

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : Node address is available

 

Monitor : /Common/icmp (default node monitor)

 

Monitor Status : up

 

Session Status : enabled

 

Ltm::Node: 10.8.10.14 (10.8.10.14)

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : Node address is available

 

Monitor : /Common/icmp (default node monitor)

 

Monitor Status : up

 

Session Status : enabled

 

Ltm::Pool: test_pool_15005

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : The pool is available

 

Monitor : test_tcp_15005

 

Minimum Active Members : 0

 

Current Active Members : 2

 

Total Requests : 0

 

Current Sessions : 0

 

Ltm::Pool: test_pool_15007

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : The pool is available

 

Monitor : test_tcp_15007

 

Minimum Active Members : 0

 

Current Active Members : 1

 

Total Requests : 0

 

Current Sessions : 0

 

Ltm::Pool: test_pool_https

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : The pool is available

 

Monitor : test_tcp_18080

 

Minimum Active Members : 0

 

Current Active Members : 1

 

Total Requests : 1484

 

Current Sessions : 18446744073709551615

 

Ltm::Virtual Server: test_vs_10080

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : The virtual server is available

 

CMP : enabled

 

CMP Mode : all-cpus

 

Destination : 10.8.6.19:10080

 

Ltm::Virtual Server: test_vs_10081

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : The virtual server is available

 

CMP : enabled

 

CMP Mode : all-cpus

 

Destination : 10.8.6.19:10081

 

Ltm::Virtual Server: test_vs_https

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : The virtual server is available

 

CMP : enabled

 

CMP Mode : all-cpus

 

Destination : 10.8.6.19:443

 

Ltm::Virtual Server: test_vs_stunnel

 

Status Availability : available

 

State : enabled

 

Reason : The virtual server is available

 

CMP : enabled

 

CMP Mode : all-cpus

 

Destination : 10.8.6.19:10443

 

1 Reply

  • Hi, A virtual server (VS) is a traffic-management object on the BIG-IP system that is represented by an IP address and a service. In your case, there is VS 10.8.6.19 with different services https, 10443, etc. VS directs the traffic according to your configuration to different pools or nodes (app servers). Your app servers is behind VS 10.8.6.19. How it works: the BIG-IP system typically translates the destination address of VS in a request to the actual address of a server node, and translates the actual source address in a response to the virtual server address.